Hand-Crafted Voices With ‘Futurama’ Actor Billy West � MTV Geek

Hand-Crafted Voices With ‘Futurama’ Actor Billy West � MTV Geek: "I try to encourage those kinds of things. I’ve spoken to a lot of people that have this passion for wanting to do voiceover work. You know I don’t want to tell them, “Yeah, you gotta somehow take heart that you may never ever end up in a big budget animation movie.” Because it’s an automatic, [animators] will just start drawing characters that look like the people that they’re hoping to get to be in the movie.

It’s almost like a rigged fight: they know exactly what the person’s going to sound like and what they’re going to look like. They’re basing the character on that rather than this character who comes out of the blue that somebody has to interpret. I don’t think you’re interpreting anything when you’re doing your own voice for everything."